Printing Gaffe Nixes Test Results

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC—Due to a printing error that slipped past both the printer and the customer, the reading test results for U.S. students on an international examination had to be discarded, according to the Washington Post.

The Program for International Student Assessment test, which has been administered every three years since 2000, provides an international basis for comparison of 15-year-olds in reading, math and science. But the results from the 2006 reading portion had to be scrapped by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and the contractor—RTI International—shouldered the blame.